I have never had the feeling that Joe Biden, Adam Schiff, Jeb Bush or any other man ever got into Mr. Trump’s head like Ms. Daniels, Ms. Carroll, Ms. James and the other women do. . Not that men aren’t on her hit list: Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, is up there, as are the two male judges in Trump’s criminal and civil cases in Manhattan, one of whom he sued recently, in Another (unsuccessful) attempt to delay his trial.

But they are the women whose behavior (call it bravery and courage, as I do, or impertinence and recklessness, as Trump would) makes him spin like a top, like when the sentencing in the James case against him threatened the government of Trump. real estate assets or, in his words, “my ‘babies’.”

Imagine being held accountable by someone (for a gender, I would say) that you consider inferior to you.

There is a certain karmic justice here. After Trump talked about taking over women in the “Access Hollywood” tape, women talked about winning him back by defeating him at the polls in 2016. They didn’t. Perhaps what we are seeing now is the moment of recovery, although more of a slow and steady pinch. After years of demonizing women who refuse to do his bidding, he’s getting a measure of what he deserves.

Exhibit A of how much these women are in Trump’s head is the level of vitriol he spews at them. Some things are comical, like a preschooler looking for insults. Some are more sinister: Mrs. Clinton and Kamala Harris as “unlikable”; Nancy Pelosi as “crazy” and “very sick.”

And the women journalists who will interrogate him during press conferences during the hush money trial and during the election campaign? She goes for the jugular in much more vicious and public ways than with her white male colleagues. Mrs Twohey: a “disgusting human being”. Yamiche Alcindor, now of NBC News: “threatening.” During a press conference in 2018, she accosted CNN’s Abby Phillip, telling the crowd that she asks “a lot of stupid questions,” a comment that drew condemnation from the National Association of Black Journalists.